Awards & Recognition
★Forbes '100 Greatest Living Business Minds of the past 100 years'
★Forbes 'America's Self-Made Women 2019'
★Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Sciences (2023)
★Lifetime Achievement Award from Maryland Tech Council
★University of Maryland School of Medicine Dean's Distinguished Gold Medal (2024)
★National Academy of Engineering election (2026)
★Guinness World Record holder for electric helicopter flight records
Notable Facts
→Founded SiriusXM Satellite Radio and United Therapeutics
→Highest-paid female CEO in America ($38 million in 2013)
→Started United Therapeutics to save her daughter's life from pulmonary hypertension
→Created world's largest net-zero office building (Unisphere) in Silver Spring, MD
→Holds Guinness World Records for electric helicopter flight achievements
→Author of multiple books on bioethics, gender identity, and technology
→Prominent transgender rights advocate and futurist
→PhD in Medical Ethics, JD/MBA from UCLA